Rachel Feintzeig

speaker

1,709 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2019 last heard Nov 2024

Rachel Feintzeig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Being Too Nice Can Damage Your Career Path · 7 Aug 2023 podcast

And it was important to me in this piece that I wasn't telling people to be someone that they're totally not. matched

This stuff is all on the margins. matched

I also think it's totally fine to be a nice person at work. matched

I consider myself to be a nice person at work and I don't want to change that. matched

I talked to a guy who works in tech who told me 99.9% of the time, I am jovial and I will get what I want or give feedback by being jovial. matched

I'll make a joke. matched

I'll ask questions. matched

point one percent of the time where he is a little bit more stern or a little bit more terse, more effective. matched

It's like this currency that he doles out sparingly. matched

And so I think people should think about it like that. matched

You're not trying to change your personality. matched

You're not trying to change who you are 99 percent of the time. matched

It's about giving yourself the tools to get what you want and make sure that you're being really effective in certain situations. matched

It makes it even more important. matched

People want to see that leaders can command a room, command a team, speak their mind a bit. matched

You don't want to be mean or jerky to people, for sure. matched

You don't want to be in a situation where you're constantly picking up the slack for other people and matched

being deluged with work that's not going to advance your career. matched

I'm not saying that you shouldn't work hard, but sometimes when you're too nice, you're not as discerning about the work that's going to get you ahead. matched

You don't have as much control over the stuff that you're working on. matched

Showing 541–560 of 1,709 · page 28 of 86